Current Minor Use Registrations, Priorities
and Projects for Sugar Beets

Table of Contents

1. Registrations Achieved
2. Priorities for Ontario
3. Historical & Active URMULE Projects
4. Canadian National Minor Use Priorities
5. Related Links

Priorities for Ontario

Ontario’s minor use priorities are established annually by various services committees and minor use commodity liaison committees.
* Eligibility:

1. URMULE = User Requested Minor Use Label Expansion; product already available in Canada on other commodities
2. URMUR = User Requested Minor Use Registration; product not registered in Canada yet, but available for same use in USA or EU.
3. Other = Is not eligible for either of the above
4. Cat. A = Registrant submission

** Justifications:

1. No pest control product registered to control this pest (insect, disease, weed)
2. New introduced or invasive pest problem
3. Old technology (organophosphate, carbamate, EBDC, etc.) replacement
4. Resistance management /IPM strategy tool
5. Reduced risk, biopesticide, pheromone or GRAS (generally regarded as safe) product
6. Export crop with need for harmonized pest control options and crop tolerances
7. New crop

Historical & Active URMULE Projects

Group 1: Root & Tuber Vegetables

Beet, sugar

Target Pest(s): Weeds
Active Ingredient: desmedipham + phenmediphan, etc.
Product(s): Betamix + Upbeet + Lontrel
Company: Bayer
Sponsor: L. Huffman
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2000-2050
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: 3-way microrate request; formulant issues at PMRA, efficacy required also. WITHDRAWN.

Target Pest(s): Weeds
Active Ingredient: glyphosate
Product(s): Roundup
Company: Monsanto
Sponsor: P. Regitnig; Alberta
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2003-0350
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2005-0452
Status: Residue and tolerance req'd on original 1998-0664; to be resubmitted early 2003; DACO issued Oct. 17, 2003; crop tolerance and residue data required zones 7A & 14. Data provided to PMRA by ASBG & Rogers Sugar Feb. 25, 2005. Registered December 2005.

Target Pest(s): Weeds
Active Ingredient: glufosinate ammonium
Product(s): Liberty
Company: Bayer
Sponsor: Alberta, Rogers Sugar Ltd.
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2000-1934
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2001-0308
Status: Currently under review, due 11/01; residue data required from zones 5, 7A, 14, WITHDRAWN SEPT. 2002

Target Pest(s): Weeds
Active Ingredient: s-metolachlor
Product(s): Dual Magnum
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: L. Huffman
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2001-1082
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2002-3491; 2003-2697
Status: Submitted April, 2001; residue required zones 5, 7A, 14. Rationale with US data submitted Dec. 02; denied by PMRA Aug. 2003 due to lack of storage storability data. ON submitted data Nov. 2003; registered July 2004.

Target Pest(s): Powdery mildew
Active Ingredient: myclobutanil
Product(s): Nova
Company: Dow Agro
Sponsor: AAFC03-001
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2003-0246
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: Submitted Feb. 2003; DACO issued March 26, 2003; metabolism, crop rotation, processing, efficacy and residue data required zones 5, 7A, 14. AAFC did trials in 2003. Project WITHDRAWN.

Target Pest(s): Rhizoctonia
Active Ingredient: azoxystrobin
Product(s): Quadris
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: OMAFRA
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2004-1106
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2004-1813
Status: Submitted May 10, 2004; D.3.2 assigned Aug. 2004. Registered May 2005.

Target Pest (s): Wireworm, sugar beet root maggot

Active Ingredient: thiamethoxam
Product(s): Cruiser
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: AAFC06-025
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2006-0098
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2008-1334
Status: 2006 Project joint with IR-4. DACO issued March 27, 2006: efficacy, residue and occupational exposure data required. D.3.2 assigned March 31, 2008. D.3.2 approval granted April 22, 2009. C.6.3 2009-1528 label approved Oct. 26, 2009.

Target Pest(s): Flea beetles, webworm
Active Ingredient: metaflumizone
Product(s): Alverde
Company: BASF
Sponsor: AAFC07-027
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2006-7733
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: 2007 Project; submitted end of Nov. 2006.

Target Pest(s): Labeled diseases
Active Ingredient: fludioxonil
Product(s): Maxim 480 FS seed treatment
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: J. Chaput
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2007-4404
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2007-8042
Status: submitted May 2007. D.3.2 assigned Nov. 5, 2007. D.3.2 approval granted July 8, 2008. C.6.3 2008-2769 label approved August 15, 2008.

Target Pest(s): Leaf blight
Active Ingredient: fenbuconazole
Product(s): Indar
Company: Dow Agro
Sponsor: J. Chaput
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2007-4636
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: submitted June 2007. DACO issued Nov. 16, 2007; efficacy, tolerance and residue data required. Project WITHDRAWN.

Target Pest(s): Leaf blight, powdery mildew, Rhizoctonia
Active Ingredient: trifloxystrobin
Product(s): Flint
Company: Bayer
Sponsor: AAFC-PMC
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2008-1646
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: submitted May 2008.

Target Pest(s): Leaf blight, powdery mildew, Rhizoctonia
Active Ingredient: prothioconazole
Product(s): Proline
Company: Bayer
Sponsor: OSGA, J. Chaput
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2008-2256
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2009-0806
Status: submitted 5 June 2008. D.3.2 assigned March 5, 2009.

Target Pest(s): Cercospora leaf spot
Active Ingredient: propiconazole
Product(s): Tilt
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: OSGA, J. Chaput
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2008-3346
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: submitted August 2008. DACO issued Dec. 1, 2008; freezer storage stability data required.

Crop Group

Target Pest(s): Rhizoctonia (CGs 1A, 1B, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9)
Active Ingredient: azoxystrobin
Product(s): Dynasty (ST)
Company: Syngenta
Sponsor: J. Chaput
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2008-1293
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2): 2009-1324
Status: submitted March 2008. DACO issued Sept. 4, 2008; efficacy, seed data and OE data required. D.3.2 assigned April 21, 2009.

Target Pest(s): Labelled pests (CG1)
Active Ingredient: chloropicrin
Product(s): CP 100, Pic Plus
Company: Hendrix and Dail
Sponsor: J. Chaput
URMULE PSC Number (D.3.1): 2009-1868, 2009-1875
URMULE Sub. Number (D.3.2):
Status: Submitted June 2009;

Canadian National Minor Use Priorities

Visit the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada website (Pesticide Risk Reduction and Minor Use Programs) or contact your provincial minor use coordinator.

Related Links

• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Pesticide Risk Reduction and Minor Use Programs
• Ontario Minor Use Program
• Information For Sponsors
• Current Minor Use Registrations, Priorities and Projects
• Ontario Emergency Use Registrations